Former Top Manager Of Kalashnikov Concern Arrested In Moscow
- 14.02.2026, 14:46
In the case of multi-million dollar embezzlement on state defense contracts.
Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky court has extended the arrest for two months of Kseniya Grashchenkova, ex-director of procurement and logistics at the Kalashnikov concern - the largest manufacturer of small arms in Russia (part of Rostec). This was reported by TASS citing a source among law enforcers. Grashchenkova is accused of involvement in multimillion-dollar embezzlement. The criminal case against the ex-top manager of Kalashnikov about abuse of power in the execution of state defense contracts by an organized group, which caused grave consequences (p. a, b, part 2, article 201.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) was initiated back in November 2025, and she was taken into custody in December. Now Grashchenkova is in one of the pre-trial detention centers of the capital. She faces up to 10 years in a penal colony.
Siloviki detained the former top manager in the framework of criminal proceedings in the case of embezzlement of more than 30 million rubles from "Kalashnikov" in the performance of the state defense order (fraud on a large scale), initiated in the fall of 2024. According to the investigation, representatives of one of the contractors from the Ivanovo region purchased "semi-finished parts, structurally similar and repeating the subject of the contract" at an underestimated cost in China and supplied them to the concern, "knowingly knowing that the quality of these parts did not meet the technical requirements." As local publications wrote, Kalashnikov filed a claim for 30.06 million rubles against Intertekhnika LLC, which was owned by the family of the head of the Ivanovo region's tourism department, Maya Silkina.
The concern later increased the amount of its claims against the Ivanovo company by 5.35 million rubles. The court arrested Silkina's spouse, Intertechnika's technical director Alexei Morokhov, accusing him of fraud and causing damage to Kalashnikov worth more than 32 million rubles. In the spring of last year it became known that the man pleaded guilty and entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement with the prosecutor of the Ivanovo region. Another defendant in the case was the founder of Intertekhnika Alexei Ledenev, he is under house arrest along with the third defendant - ex-general director of the company Yuri Chernyshev.
"All enterprises in the GC "Intertekhnika" Silkina and Morokhov in recent years actually do not operate. There are no industrial assets," IvanovoLive wrote.